Plaza de la Recovera

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This square is located in a place of passage and meeting of visueños and visueñas and at the foot of one of the most important streets of the municipality, Calle Real.

In the middle of the square, is the bronze sculpture that gives its name to the square “La Recovera”, by the sculptor Jesús Gavira mairenero. This monument, installed in 1991 in the square, wanted to pay tribute to women and this profession.

Recovera was the woman dedicated to the recova (buying eggs, bread, etc., for resale). Enterprising and with character, her figure was key in the economy of Visueña after the post-war period, when some women with scarce resources found in the recova their livelihood to get ahead their battered family economy, touring farms and orchards to sell their products in Seville or other towns.

The recoveras were skilled at hiding their products from the inspection of the agents of the fielatos (offices at the entrance of the towns where the consumption rights were paid in the past) and collectors of municipal taxes who watched over train stations, squares and markets.

  • Plaza de la Recovera - Calle la Muela
    41520 El Viso del Alcor
    Sevilla, España

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